Power back on for hundreds in Seminole County after construction crew hit power line

Paola area in Sanford affected

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SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – Hundreds of residents in the Sanford area were temporarily without power on Wednesday after a construction incident, according to Seminole County officials.

Officials said that Florida Power & Light confirmed a power line was hit during construction in the area of Paola in Sanford.

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According to FPL’s website, there were as many as 2,000 customers without power in Seminole County at the time, although it wasn’t known exactly how many of those outages were related to this incident.

It only took around 90 minutes to get the power back on for those customers, according to FPL, with an official back-on time of 1:49 p.m. reported.


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